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The power of this stirring, authentic account comes from Carr’s ability to capture the refugee experience through his face-to-face interviews and his passionate observation of the current scene, including human trafficking, in which women and minors are forced to choose between deportation and exploitation.
—Booklist (starred review)
This disturbing but hopeful book humanizes the face of 21st-century immigration.
—Publishers Weekly
Praise for The Infernal Machine:
Carr makes about as much sense of terrorism . . . as any author is likely to do. A book for the ages.
—The Boston Globe
Brims with insight. Here, finally, we are able to see modern terrorism in its proper context.
—Andrew Bacevich
Praise for Blood and Faith:
Splendid.
—The New York Times Book Review
Carr deftly narrates the complex events leading up to this little known but horrific episode as a
warning against religious intolerance and xenophobia.
—Publishers Weekly
Fortress Europe
Dispatches from a Gated Continent
hardcover
$27.95
From the author of the “splendid” (New York Times) Blood and Faith, an explosive investigation into the violent, high-tech borders of the new Europe, exposing the dark side of the continent’s draconian immigration policies
At eight in the morning, there are never enough immigrants. At eight in the evening, there are always too many of them.
—Juan Enciso, right-wing mayor of El Ejido, Spain
—Juan Enciso, right-wing mayor of El Ejido, Spain
On the militarized Turkish-Greek border, Afghan migrants brave minefields to cross into Europe—only to be summarily ejected by Greek border guards. At Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish enclaves in North Africa, migrants are turned back with razor wire and live ammunition. Deportees from the UK and France have died of “positional asphyxia” on deportation flights, strapped to chairs, their mouths sealed with tape. In a brilliant and shocking account, Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most affluent region—and history’s greatest experiment with globalization—has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a human rights crisis that has gone largely unnoticed by the U.S. media.
Journalist Matthew Carr brings to life these remarkable human dramas, based on extensive interviews and firsthand reporting from the hot zones of Europe’s immigration battles, in a narrative that spans the desperate immigrant camps at the mouth of the Channel Tunnel in Calais, France; Moldova, the center of female sex trafficking; and the chaotic Mediterranean sea, where African migrants have drowned by the thousands. Speaking with key European policy makers, police, soldiers on the front lines, immigrant rights activists, and an astonishing range of migrants themselves, Carr offers a lucid account both of the broad issues at stake in the crisis and its exorbitant human costs.
Matthew Carr is a writer, broadcaster, journalist, and the author of Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain (a New York Times Editors’ Choice), The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism, and the acclaimed memoir My Father’s House. He lives in Derbyshire, England.
Journalist Matthew Carr brings to life these remarkable human dramas, based on extensive interviews and firsthand reporting from the hot zones of Europe’s immigration battles, in a narrative that spans the desperate immigrant camps at the mouth of the Channel Tunnel in Calais, France; Moldova, the center of female sex trafficking; and the chaotic Mediterranean sea, where African migrants have drowned by the thousands. Speaking with key European policy makers, police, soldiers on the front lines, immigrant rights activists, and an astonishing range of migrants themselves, Carr offers a lucid account both of the broad issues at stake in the crisis and its exorbitant human costs.
Matthew Carr is a writer, broadcaster, journalist, and the author of Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain (a New York Times Editors’ Choice), The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism, and the acclaimed memoir My Father’s House. He lives in Derbyshire, England.
Fall 2012
hardcover
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 304 pages
978-1-59558-685-8
hardcover
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 304 pages
978-1-59558-685-8
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